Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.